Thurs, Mar 19, 2020
6:30 PM
Museum of Ventura County
The Museum of Ventura County is honored to host Dolores Huerta on March 19, 2020 @ 6:30 PM for a talk about her years working with the UFW, her work building community and organizing for change, and so much more. Guests will have the opportunity to tour the Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo exhibit both before and after the talk. Admission is $5 for museum members, $15 for non-members.
Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. Dolores Huerta has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo will be on display from March 14, 2020—April 26, 2020 at the Museum of Ventura County and from March 20, 2020-August 2, 2020 at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula.
Oxnard Film Society Screening of “Dolores”
March 9, 2020 at 3:30 and 6:30 PM at the Plaza Cinemas 14 in Oxnard
In conjunction with the upcoming exhibit Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo and the Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta speaking event, The Museum of Ventura County is excited to co-sponsor with the Oxnard Film Society for two special screenings of “Dolores” on Monday, March 9, 2020 at 3:30 PM and 6:30 PM at the Plaza Cinemas 14 in Downtown Oxnard. Tickets can be purchased at the door.